Haywood

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Haywood, William Dudley Known as "Big Bill.” 1869-1928. American labor leader. A socialist who helped found the Industrial Workers of the World (1905), he was ejected from the Socialist Party for his militant views (1912) and was convicted of sedition during World War I. He fled to the Soviet Union in 1921.

With the click of a mouse, my entire world changed when I learned that my great-great-great grandfather, an African slave named Sandy, was purchased at the age of 10 by Edmund Wills who lived in Haywood County, Tennessee in 1850.